tallow means A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
tallow is pronounced /ˈtæləʊ/.
Etymology
From Middle English talow, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian տեղ (teł, “heavy rain”)).
noun
- A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.“"I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out[.]"”
verb
- To grease or smear with tallow.
- To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.“to tallow sheep”
- Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.“[…] their beef is finer than that of the old short-horned breed, and they fatten much earlier and quicker, conveying still a vast depth of natural flesh, and tallowing within in the first degree.”